Crafting Traits

Apothecaries Apprentice

Trait Cost: 2

In your life, you learned the basics about brewing potions from a physician.

Perk

When brewing potions, you can chain your apothecary skill increases by one increment.

Flaw

Having focused on apothecary crafting all other forms of crafting and repairs have -1 and unlucky rolls.

Bonus

You gain the first rank of Alchemist Mastery.

Penance

8 talents or knowledge points

Blacksmith Apprentice

Trait Cost: 2

In your past, you were an apprentice to a blacksmith, where you learned the ways of the forge.

Perk

You can add half your might to your smith check. This can be done equal to half your might per day.

Flaw

Your apprenticeship ended because of an accident that caused your arm to become scarred and your name to be tarnished in the blacksmith industry. You cannot craft higher than grade four quality and cannot learn Hotton steel and titanium forging.

Bonus

You gain the first rank of Blacksmith Mastery.

Penance

level 7 & 7 talents or knowledge points

Crafty Crafter

Trait Cost: 1

You have a knack for creating things.

Perk

+1 Apothecary or Smith; +2 Harvest.

Flaw

The crafting skill not chosen from the perk has -2 and unlucky rolls. You cannot craft higher than grade four quality for all crafting checks.

Penance

10 talents or knowledge points

Overly Organized

Trait Cost: 2

You are meticulously organized. To where you can’t stand seeing things messy.

Perk

You are so organized that it is harder for you to destroy material on failed crafting checks. When a crafting attempt is made but fails, you can re-roll taking the new crafting check. This can only be done once per crafting session.

Flaw

You love to keep things organized. When you see clutter and messes, you must resist the urge to clean and organize the messes. Roll a psyche check (DR12) and if successful, you can resist your urge to clean. If not, you immediately try to clean up the mess.

Penance

7 talents or knowledge points

Poison Brewer

Trait Cost: 1

While practicing making potions, you kept making a mistake by turning them into poison. You find this to be easier to do than make potions and made poisons only.

Perk

Gain the Handle Poison Mastery.

Flaw

Any apothecary skill rolls you make are unlucky unless you are making a poison.

Bonus

+1 to apothecary skill rolls when making poison.

Penance

Level 3 & 6 talents or knowledge points

Recipe Hoarder

Trait Cost: 3

Blueprints, recipes, diagrams, you love studying them and exploring all their features. So much so that you have hoarded them.

Perk

Learning recipes costs one less knowledge (min. 1).

Flaw

Hiding away to study your recipes, you have damaged your eyes from the lack of light. When rolling to avoid being dazed or any other effect that affects your eyes, you have a -2 to the rolls. You suffer -1 perception.

Bonus

Start with three recipes that cost one knowledge, one recipe that costs two knowledge, and one recipe that costs three knowledge. You have already learned two of the recipes that cost one knowledge and one recipe that cost two or three knowledge.

Penance

6 talents or knowledge points



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